Example sentences of "time [pron] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 Do whatever you like , I 'm not saying go out and buy War and Peace , because you know , if you do n't , if you 're not into the habit of reading , you pick up War and Peace , and by the time you get through the first page , you say who are all these people ?
2 So we charge for the time we go to the first address pick the thing up go to the second unload and get back to depot .
3 There are a couple of false summits on Schiehallion , and by the time we arrived at the first , the beginnings of a blizzard were forming .
4 Children can start to earn stickers for the chart every time they comply with the first request .
5 By the time they toured for the first time , in 1985 , they seemed silly — nothing dates as fast as an advertisement .
6 In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question .
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